It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.